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Florian Schneider has died

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Re: Florian Schneider has died

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Post by dadarepublic »

My very first splice job I did on a song was with Kraftwerk's Tour De France.

My friend and I wanted to extend the song so we could dance to it. So using a stereo system that had a cassette deck that could record from the turntable, I would cue the cassette to record, pause, then release the turntable, unpause the cassette, record the bit in the song we wanted to extend, and wash-rinse-repeat until we had the length we wanted.

This of course led to me down a long path of making beats, mixing tracks, and general electro-acoustic music shenanigans :)

Rest in peace Florian.

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Post by lb1lf »

johnr2 wrote: post #17
mattigames wrote: post #7

This article somehow forgot to mention their influence in the most commercially successful German rock band of all times: Rammstein, which made a cover of their song Das Modell. Edit: As pointed out the english-singing rock band Scorpions from Germany is far more popular.

> most commercially successful German rock band of all times: Rammstein s/German/German-singing and you might have a point.

-I think it is hard to rank bands like this, but surely Einstürzende Neubauten could give Rammstein a run for their money?

(Or is Rammstein a much bigger and the Neubauten a much less significant act than I think? ;))

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Post by LaserDiscMan »

cft wrote: post #4

They predicted "computer world" in 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7WrCqsTC0 "Crime, Travel, Communication, Entertainment"

And electronic dating in "Computer Love" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNBGWenPlGo).

I always thought that song was about the "love" one feels using a computer. The relationship between a programmer and a machine. Perhaps I was just hearing what I wanted to hear though.

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Post by tomphoolery »

OzzyB wrote: post #5
Ididntdothis wrote: post #2

Now their music is kind of obvious but when you think about the scene back then it’s pretty amazing what they did.

Nothing obvious about it. That's like saying Roland's shitty bass accompaniment gizmo, the TB-303, was obviously built for Acid House.

I mean, of course it's made for acid house! Surely Roland wouldn't have made a bass accompaniment synthesizer sound that unrealistic! /s

Re: Florian Schneider has died

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Post by tpmx »

krtkush wrote: post #32

My favorite song by kraftwerk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWsQgmq-fNs

It's also my favorite one. It's just magic. It's just as fantastic as the first time I heard it about 29 years ago or so.

(I also happen to believe that massive introduction of nuclear power is the only thing that will make the earth comfortably habitable for our grand-children, but that's a topic for another thread.)

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